{"id":663,"date":"2009-11-30T08:28:28","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T13:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/?p=663"},"modified":"2009-11-30T08:28:28","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T13:28:28","slug":"net-developer-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/2009\/11\/net-developer-stories\/","title":{"rendered":".NET Developer Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps one of the best and most enjoyable ways to learn about technology is through examples of how it\u2019s being applied.&#160; Many organizations offer case studies and other details of their implementations in an effort to help others that can benefit from the knowledge.&#160; However, it\u2019s often difficult to find real-world, developer-focused content.&#160; Much of the information has had many layers of overly enthusiastic marketing-ese applied, and the technical details get buried under photos of attractive, happy-looking business people from stock clip art.<\/p>\n<p>To help provide some concrete examples (and recognition) related to .NET development, Microsoft has created it\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/net\/dotnetstories\/\">.NET Stories<\/a> web site.&#160; This site allows developers to post some details related to their own projects and the application of technologies such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>.NET Framework and Visual Studio<\/li>\n<li>Windows Server<\/li>\n<li>SQL Server<\/li>\n<li>SharePoint Server<\/li>\n<li>Windows 7 <\/li>\n<li>Windows Azure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can submit your own projects use the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mydotnetstory.com\/submit.aspx\">My .NET Story<\/a> web site.&#160; I\u2019m looking forward to reviewing the submissions for ideas (and I might possibly submit one of my own applications for review).&#160; Oh, and did I mention that the site offers numerous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mydotnetstory.com\/prizedetails.aspx\">prizes<\/a>, including a Smart Car and a 12-day trip to the Galapagos Islands?&#160; It\u2019s not often that developers get recognition, so I hope a lot of us can take advantage of the information collected on this site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps one of the best and most enjoyable ways to learn about technology is through examples of how it\u2019s being applied.&#160; Many organizations offer case studies and other details of their implementations in an effort to help others that can benefit from the knowledge.&#160; However, it\u2019s often difficult to find real-world, developer-focused content.&#160; Much of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-databases-sql-server","category-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}